I've read all but the last of the books in this series (Angel of Mercy), and this remains one of my favorites. Stefanie Andrews is a strong character, though vulnerable because of her past. I enjoyed watching her story unfold as she found God, love, and peace with the mystery of her parents. Some elements of the story seemed a little bit too coincidental--too many significant people just happened to show up in Denver all at the same time. But the coincidence is forgivable as everything works out just right in the end. I like Al Lacy's combination of Christianity, medical history, and the Wild West which makes the Angel of Mercy Series truly unique.

Em Hansen, the protagonist of A Fall in Denver, is a likeable, real person. She has given up life as a field geologist in Wyoming to take on an office job in Denver. On her first day, a body falls past her window to its death. With no real work to do for the company, she undertakes solving the crime. Em is a believable character with anxieties about her prep school friends and cold coworkers, attractions to a suave colleague, inspite of longing feelings for the man she left behind, and hostility to her Boston pureblood grandmother. The mystery thickens when another body falls from the same window. The conclusion is satisfying, leaving me interested in reading more Em Hansen mysteries..

I just used this book while on a vacation in these areas of Colorado. The reccomendations in the book are very helpful and the use of this book really helped make my vacation a success. It is very easy to read and follow and FULL of information about both the sites in the book and interesting history of the area. Great book to buy if you are planning a vacation to Colorado.

This book is very informative and is beautifully illustrated with fine colour plates and historically interesting black and white photos. There are many paintings in this collection that I was not aware of. It is wonderful for anyone, specificaly, whose favourite art period is mid to late 19th cent. French, or loves great art in general.

If you already have his autiobiography (Take Me Home) and any other greatest hits songbook, save your money (although it does have one of my photos, uncredited, of course) :)

A. J. Orde is B. J. Oliphant is Sheri Tepper and a stunning writer whether she is dealing with the far future or the deepest rescesses of the heart.

Jason Lynx, the hero of this series, is a man who has been seriously wounded by life. He was abandoned as an badly burned infant on the steps of a children't home. He spent the next four years undergoing skin grafts. At the age of 14 he was taken in by an antique's dealer who had helped him get his start in the interior design business. Later he married but his wife disappeared and his son was found strapped in a car seat in a wrecked vehicle.

Now it is eight years later. Jason has taken over his foster father's business and has established himself as a successful businessman. Then one Sunday his neighbor George asks him to check on his dogs while he goes to pick up his wife who has had a minor accident. What follows is murder, bombings, and the breaking open of scabs that have crusted over old wounds.

This is a very good novel and a very good mystery. While it was first published in 1989 there is very little dated about the book.

This book is an astoundingly in-depth index of mineral occurances in Colorado. It has more than a few eye-opening revelations. Looking up the radioactive minerals is especially provacative. By bringing together so much information, the stupefying magnitude of efforts to find and identify minerals in Colorado can start to be appreciated.

The books organization should be explained: Individual mineral "chapters" are arranged aphabetically. Within each mineral chapter, occurances are listed aphabetically by county. This format makes looking for particular minerals fairly straightforward--it tells you which counties have the mineral and basically where to find them. As could be expected, publicly accessible occurances are described in more detail than private sites (mines are usually only named).

On the other hand, if you want to find out what minerals are found in particular county, only a short mineral highlights section at the beginning of the book is helpful. County information is parceled out to the individual mineral chapters. Regrouping the information by county would require another book--or a searchable CD.

This book begs to be in database-on-CD form.

This is the first book I've read by Sarah Andrews, and I'll look for more. She does a great job of creating believable, complex characters, and the plot kept me engaged.

This book is about Sitchin's theories. If you're into Sitchin's books you'll like this book.

This was a great book. I couldn't put it down from the moment I began reading. It made me angry in the beginning and happy at the end. It showed the growth of all the characters, including the children.Normally I probably wouldn't have picked this up because of the subject matter, but anything Rex Denver writes is usually good. Pick this one up if you like a page turner!